Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

Acting is happy agony.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

I make a lot of expressions constantly. I’m animated.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.